Category Archives: Rowing

June 11, 2014 USADA announced today that Nick Trojan, of Los Alamitos, Calif., an athlete in the sport of rowing, has tested positive for a prohibited substance and accepted a nine-month suspension for his offense. Trojan, 23, tested positive for Methylphenidate and its metabolite, Ritalinic Acid, as the result of an in-competition urine sample collected…

August 20, 2013 USADA announced today that Gregory Flood of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Frank Petrucci, of Warwick, N.Y., athletes in the sport of rowing, have both tested positive for a prohibited substance and have accepted a public warning and a loss of results due to the presence of a prohibited substance in their urine…

April 13,2012 USADA announced today that Matt Kochem, of Somerset, N.J., an athlete in the sport of rowing, has accepted a one-year suspension for committing an anti-doping rule violation in which he failed to file whereabouts information. Kochem, 25, is a member of the USADA National Testing Pool, which consists of a select group of…

October 29, 2010 USADA announced today that Evangelos Tsourtsoulas of Caldwell, New Jersey, an athlete in the sport of rowing, has tested positive for a prohibited substance and has accepted a public warning and loss of results from October 1, 2010, for his anti-doping rule violation. Tsourtsoulas, 25, provided a urine sample on October 1,…

April 10, 2009 USADA announced today that U.S. Rowing athlete Samuel Burns (Philadelphia, PA) has received a two-year suspension for an Anti-Doping Rules Violation (“ADRV”). Burns, 27, refused to take part in a USADA Out-of-Competition doping control test on February 13, 2009. Under the rules of the International Federation of Rowing Associations and USADA, both…